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02/24/06: Uncle Tom  revisited, redeemed 02/22/06: Tear down China's Great (fire)Wall 02/15/06: Oh, shoot! Cheney's holding secrets again01/30/06: Google should battle overseas, too01/20/06: Can't handle the truth? Try truthiness01/12/06: Post-scandal clean-up in congress01/10/06: Why Condi's star is rising12/26/05: Lies, taps and presidential snoops12/21/05: Eavesdropping smart, but we should have known12/19/05: Wit, wisdom from two departed icons12/05/05: Why Bush's border scheme won't work12/01/05: Risky times for hard news and views11/28/05: A capitol of offenses11/07/05: Ace talk is not always racist 11/03/05: Why Bush didn't pick Alito sooner 10/27/05: Remembering the seamstress 10/24/05: A clothes call for NBA's whiners10/24/05: A reporter's conflict: Hero or stooge?10/17/05: Meirs vs. Sexism on both sides 10/13/05: Close our torture loophole 10/10/05: Miers reveals the inner Bush 10/06/05: Why some public schools work 09/29/05: Po vs Broke: Two types of poverty 09/20/05: Throwing cash, kindness in Katrina's wake 09/15/05: Still two nations, after all 09/12/05: A hard look at the Big Easy's future 09/08/05: Race, Poverty And Katrina 09/06/05: Race, Class And Katrina 09/01/05: Narrow race gap, widen gender gap08/29/05: Declare victory and start packing08/24/05: Democrats fall back into framing trap08/18/05: Looking back at an era of riots08/11/05: Indispensable lessons of a black publishing pioneer07/25/05: How cell phones sap your brain07/21/05: A GOP olive branch to black voters07/18/05: Rove affair: Is it frog-march time, yet?07/14/05: Judging the content of a caricature07/08/05: Aid helps, but free trade would do more for Africa07/06/05: Conscience of a swingvoter06/28/05: Apologies are all about the future06/16/05: Making sense about Jacko's shattered life06/10/05: Will Congress have the guts to tackle medical marijuana?06/07/05: Deep Throat: Dirty tricks, dirty hands05/31/05: Pro-life  with limits05/23/05: Fox inadvertently highlights failed immigration policy05/19/05: Sympathy for geezer rock stars05/16/05: Immigration's not-so-hidden costs hurt American workers05/10/05: Shades of race identity boil down to a doll test05/05/05: A new century, a new color line05/02/05: Can The Hammer handle the heat? 04/26/05: Leave no blame behind 04/20/05: Africa's leaders are quickly learning the art of the spin 04/15/05: A happy face on a gloomy second term 04/08/05: A pontiff from another continent? 03/22/05: Hot air and the X chromosome 03/17/05: Fake news makes foul government 03/16/05: It's the white supremacist who owes us the apology 03/11/05: The comeback trail 03/08/05: Blacks hearing a new gospel from GOP 03/04/05: Rock 'n' Ryan: The 2 sides of TV censorship 02/25/05: Dr. Gonzo's high-wire trip comes to a crashing finish 02/17/05: Hillary and crew delivering shout-outs to the center 02/15/05: Virginians almost lost their heads over low-hanging jeans 02/11/05: Two men, so different yet so much alike in principle 02/09/05: Shouting No! is not nearly enough 02/04/05: Hotel Rwanda replays in Sudan 01/31/05: Time to brief prez on defending minority voting rights 01/27/05: Men losing their pedestal status? 01/25/05: Is it fair to label Bush's risk-taker pitch as racist? 01/19/05: Black women talking back to rap's bad-boy culture 01/04/05: A year with ups, downs and slip-slides12/16/04: A black father on the brink of becoming a real parent12/14/04: Just answer the question, Mr. Rumsfeld12/10/04: How The Hug helped12/02/04: Persistent civil rights wounds11/29/04: Dems need to stand for more than befuddlement11/19/04: Saving 'Saving Private Ryan'11/16/04: Greetings from the disunited 'United States of Canada'11/11/04: Heart drug for blacks hard to swallow11/10/04: Bush's values got more black voters in his camp than in 2000, but all is not lost for Dems10/28/04: TV's argument shows get some comeuppance10/26/04: Still seeking justice for the murder of Emmett Till10/21/04: A surprising black bump for Bush10/19/04: Powell's ups, downs and new battlefields10/14/04: Free press under attack10/11/04: Despite Congress killing a bill that would have restored the draft, some people remain unconvinced09/28/04: Save the straight, white, Christian male09/21/04: Non-swing states want some love too09/09/04: The 'Comeback Kid' advises candidate Kerry09/02/04: Future Karl Roves getting ready to rumble08/31/04: Study schools that are successful too08/26/04: Why does America continue to refight the war in Vietnam?08/24/04: A man for all racial reasons08/03/04: Obama's drama and our dreams: Getting back on track as the United States07/29/04: Quick refresher: Politics according to the Clintons07/08/04: At colleges, immigrants are 'minorities' too07/06/04: 40 years of opportunities07/04/04: The 'no-sex' scandal06/24/04: Freedom Summer of '6406/17/04: When a diversity plan works too well06/01/04: What Bill Cosby meant to say05/18/04: Ashcroft has made murder of Emmett Till a federal case04/29/04: A surprise running mate for Kerry: Calling Colin Powell04/22/04: Did loyalty finally trip up Colin Powell?04/15/04: Kerry needs a vision to win votes for the presidency04/09/04: As much as our American presidents say "Never again" with heartfelt passion, the reality too often has been, "Yes, again," to mass killings04/06/04: Finding hope in America's bleak racial statistics04/05/04: Pop star's thriller on Capitol Hill03/31/04: Pressure building to warm up cold case03/26/04: Authentically self-hating: Today's standards of being cool on a destructive path03/23/04: To get its groove back, the religious left needs to come up with some new ideas and a new vision for curing persistent social ills 03/16/04: Jayson Blair's new career: Scandal star03/11/04: Blacks eye that John Kerry guy03/04/04: In this instance, life should imitate art02/12/04: What a friend Bush has in Sharpton02/10/04: Unspoken conflicts: America's blacks and Latinos are struggling with a new racial paradigm for the new century02/03/04: When pundits blab, blab, blab 01/29/04: Reparations on trial  briefly: Now it's time to address blacks' biggest problems01/15/04: If MLK lived, would he still be a hero? 01/08/04: GOPers would be wise to woo blacks  those who vote and don't01/02/04: Vicious, vicious Dems01/02/04: It was a banner year for the pompous and peculiar12/24/03: Al Gore's new campaign pal12/12/03: Going for the political heavy hitters: Can Gore's new pal survive the veep's endorsement?12/09/03: When is force excessive?12/02/03: Medicare reform: A real turkey of a package11/25/03: Colleges helping student athletes score diplomas11/18/03: Soccer moms vs. NASCAR dads11/13/03: Hunting 'terrorists' in Vegas strip clubs11/11/03: America's peculiar 'passing' fancy11/06/03: Dean waves wrong flag, Dems see red10/28/03: No more excuses for the parents10/23/03: Box Cutter Kid did us a favor10/17/03: So long to a misguided gag rule on the medicinal use of marijuana10/14/03: Does the election of Ah-nuld mean anything more than the obvious?10/02/03: The wages of luck in a 'jobless recovery'09/30/03: Looks like Clark should go back to basic training09/18/03: The amazing clout of lobbyists swarming around Capitol Hill09/16/03: Hearing hip-hop's pathetic message09/12/03: What teenagers really want09/09/03: Lessons from an anthropologist09/02/03: Put term limits on airport security rules08/14/03: Schoolchildren of all races at risk without parental guidance08/08/03: Colin Powell is the 'odd man out' again08/05/03: Black parents must teach their kids to succeed07/22/03: Presidential politics: A time to pander, a time to push away07/15/03: Deeper realities of Baker's dust-up07/10/03: Formerly aloof, Bush now embraces Africa07/08/03: Wrestling with the Q-word in Iraq07/01/03: If you are reading this column, you aren't being filtered!06/10/03: The 'Industry of Hillary' raises bucks for both sides06/03/03: rent-a-negro.com05/30/03: Dems grope for glimmer of hope05/28/03: Reefer sanity vs. puritans in the White House05/22/03: Turns out race was a factor in the NYTimes scandal  a very big one05/06/03: Closing the college graduation disparity04/22/03: Fighting for privacy in an era of terror04/22/03: Don't mis-underestimate the prez: Give him the 'props' he deserves04/21/03: Sitting on scoops at CNN04/15/03: After Saddam? Watch out, Syria04/11/03: 'Hammer time' for Castro04/08/03: Post-Hussein: Winning the true peace 04/03/03: Right story, wrong TV station04/01/03: Remembering Moynihan's mind03/27/03: A fog of war words: Shocking and awesome03/21/03: A Moranic moment bites peace movement03/18/03: Viewers beware when tv networks don't care03/14/03: Powell's battle for Bush's ear03/10/03: 'Embedded,' but not 'in bed with'02/28/03: Bridging the black gender gap02/19/03 Braun vs. Sharpton: A Dem dilemma02/14/03: Bush's clean-up man02/11/03: How feds fooled marijuana trial jurors02/06/03: Time to re-think space shuttle's value01/31/03: Why corporations like diversity, too01/28/03: Shaq vs. Yao, a new world diss-order01/23/03: Affirmative action will be remarketed under new name01/13/03: Bond movie offers clues to Korea crisis01/07/03: Dr. Frist to the rescue … of his party01/02/03: Feeling a 'draft,' but not much12/17/02: To rob a burning cross of its power12/03/02: Closing black-white test-score gaps11/19/02: Uncle Same wants your data11/15/02: Marriage vs. 'player' impulse11/11/02: How Oz can help the Dems11/05/02: We reserve right to be complicated10/22/02: What the pro-gun lobby and anti-gun lobby have in common10/18/02: Take Sharpton seriously? For Prez??10/15/02: A beauty and the bullies10/08/02: Time to start 'fingerprinting' bullets10/08/02: Poet laureate hater fell for Internet hoax10/04/02: Keeping it real, despite howls from black 'leaders'10/01/02: Revisiting the 'Jogger' horror09/27/02: Sometimes freedom is a necessary nuisance09/13/02: Foil Fidel with free trade09/10/02: Measuring the myth of 'super weed'09/06/02: A year later: A reality-check09/03/02: Make better choices before some jury somewhere does08/20/02: Bid farewell to the Cigarette Century08/16/02: Rights matter, even in circus trials08/09/02: Jousting with Rumsfeld's fog of wit08/06/02: Covert action is cool again08/01/02: Powell's premature obituaries07/30/02: A common sense tip on internal snooping07/18/02: Jacko plays race card badly07/12/02: Last flight for a pioneer airman07/08/02: Dems will miss Watts, too06/28/02: 'Supreme Court reads polls, too06/25/02: 'The Body' bites, then bows out06/21/02: Punishment first, then the crime?06/18/02: Reporting still risky for Haiti's press06/14/02: Bush's security plan leaves large gaps06/04/02: Fix FBI's culture gap first05/28/02: Fidel's new apartheid for tourists05/21/02: Now McKinney's lunacy sounds like the Democratic Party line05/19/02: A paradox of historical proportions05/14/02: 'Murphy Brown' revisited in age of Ozzy05/10/02: America looks like a model of tolerance and inclusion05/07/02: Forget it, Bill, you're no Oprah04/26/02: Mapping out ethnic and racial change04/23/02: A game of another color04/19/02: It's high time to open up pot-law debate04/11/02: 'Osbourne' family values rock, aging Ozzy quakes03/22/02: Zimbabwe election leaves world sleepless03/19/02: A slur? Where is thy sting?03/15/02: A Pearl of wisdom for reporter's unborn son03/12/02: Army race and gender policies on trial03/08/02: A short list of losers to be left behind03/05/02: Revenge of the 'mediasaurus'02/26/02: Jihads aren't just for Muslims02/26/02: It's hard to be 'objective' during wartime02/19/02: Hollywood's new villain: Your HMO02/12/02: Father of 'Manchild' leaves lasting message02/08/02: $nookering the reparations crowd01/31/02: Prisoners of a War of Words01/29/02: One more Enron woe: Al Sharpton & company01/25/02: Searching for slaves in bin Laden's attic01/22/02: Andrew Young's newest 'friend'01/08/02: Hard-earned lessons from 9-1112/18/01: Whatever happened to questions about the birds and the bees?12/14/01: The "White Negro" Taliban?12/07/01: Jackson's turn to gloat 11/27/01: Friendly warning from a lover of liberty11/21/01: The face of hunger is changing11/15/01: Our troubled sense of trust11/08/01: Lessons about terror from the 'hood11/06/01: Getting used to the 'new normal'11/02/01: Wicked ways to make them talk10/30/01: It's not just about bin Laden10/26/01: More than mail fell between the cracks10/23/01: Terrorists threaten urban recovery, too10/18/01: Sometimes, assassination warranted10/15/01: Self-censorship rises again10/12/01: Contradictions illustrate the complicated nature of the new terrorism10/05/01: Look who's 'profiling' now10/01/01: Don't trash liberty to save it09/28/01: Life, love and cell phones during wartime09/24/01: How to catch an elusive terrorist09/21/01: The war I was waiting for09/17/01: When rage turns to hate09/13/01: Terror attack tests US, let's give right response09/06/01: U.S. should have stayed and argued09/04/01: Columbine killer's parents get upclose and personal08/31/01: Virtual kids? Log me out08/28/01: Two Africans, one black, one white, same fight08/23/01: Sharpton for president08/20/01: Shaking up the rules on keeping secrets08/16/01: Bush's u-turn on racial goals08/09/01: Outsider Bubba comes 'in' again08/06/01: Not ready for 'color-blindness' yet08/02/01: Immigration timing couldn't be better07/26/01: Summer of Chandra: An international traveler's perspective07/17/01: Overthrowing a régime is only the beginning07/10/01: Big Brother is watching you, fining you07/05/01: Can blacks be patriotic? Should they be?06/19/01: Get 'real' about marriage06/12/01: Amos, Andy and Tony Soprano06/07/01: Getting tough with the Bush Twins06/05/01: Bringing marriage back into fashion05/31/01: "Ken" and "Johnnie": The odd-couple legal team05/24/01: Sharpton's challenge to Jackson05/22/01: Test scores equal (a) MERIT? (b) MENACE? (c) ALL OF ABOVE?05/17/01: Anti-pot politics squeeze the ill05/15/01: Was Babe Ruth black?05/10/01: U.N.'s torture caucus slaps Uncle Sam05/08/01: 'The Sopranos' a reflection of our times05/03/01: 'Free-fire' zones, then and now05/01/01: War on drugs misfires against students04/26/01: Another athlete gets foot-in-mouth disease04/23/01: 'Slave' boat mystery reveals real tragedy04/19/01: McVeigh's execution show04/12/01: Not this time, Jesse04/05/01: Dubya is DEFINITELY his own man, you fools!04/02/01: Milking MLK03/29/01: The candidate who censored himself?03/22/01: "Will Hispanics elbow blacks out of the way as the nation's most prominent minority group?"03/19/01: Blacks and the SATs03/15/01: The census: How much race still matters in the everyday life of America03/12/01: Jesse is a victim!03/08/01: Saving kids from becoming killers03/01/01: Parents owe "Puffy" and Eminem our thanks